from the new economy to the ooch economy

2002-10-05 Thread Ian Murray
[priceless.] washingtonpost.com The Economy, Smack Dab in an Ooch By a Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 5, 2002; Page A07 BOSTON, Oct. 4 -- Sometimes the economy is booming. Other times, it is contracting. At the moment, it is ooching. This economic evaluation was offered

Re: Re: Jim Crow Fascism (was Re: bullying)

2002-10-05 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 10/4/02 4:26:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Tom, I just want to repeat something I said earlier. Maybe you missed it, it is easy to do that on this prolific list. Fascism is a concept as well as a word with historical-polical meaning. You can take

Re: reforming corporate governance = socialism

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Burford
What finance capitalism is on the edge of, is that the senior members of its boards are also employees as well as the nearest thing to capitalists in flesh and blood. As finance capitalism becomes more rational as an expression of a social relationship it becomes more and more abstract. A gap

Full Marx

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Burford
In connection with the previous post, there was a cheeky article in the Financial Times on August 18 by Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford and Visiting Professor at the Stern School of Business New York. Full Marx Capital's author was right about the class

Powell and Blix [was Holy Roman Empire 2002]

2002-10-05 Thread Chris Burford
At 04/10/02 09:10 -0400, you wrote: But even though opponents of US war in practical terms would have to support the efforts of France Russia and China to impede this step, the whole unconscious contradictory process is part of an inevitable leap forward in defining the parameters of world

fre: rom the new economy to the ooch economy

2002-10-05 Thread Tom Walker
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Oochs toward Bethlehem to be born Tom Walker 604 255 4812

Coffee

2002-10-05 Thread Louis Proyect
LA Times, October 5, 2002 Coffee's Bitter Harvest The retail industry's success masks farmers' struggle to survive, from Central America to Africa, as oversupply drives down prices. By T. CHRISTIAN MILLER and DAVAN MAHARAJ, TIMES STAFF WRITERS MATAGALPA, Nicaragua -- Ernesto Alonso has

Landau in Baghdad

2002-10-05 Thread Devine, James
Title: Landau in Baghdad A Baghdad Diary Journey into the abyss by Saul Landau BAGHDAD -- IT'S 2 A.M. WHEN I INVOLuntarily step on George H.W. Bush's face as I enter the posh Al Rasheed Hotel. After the Gulf War, the Iraqi government inlaid 41's portrait on the hotel-entrance floor. So,

a modest proposal

2002-10-05 Thread Devine, James
Title: a modest proposal Reading about the U.S. meatpacking industry, I have hit upon a simple and easy solution to the current contretemps between the United States and its former ally, Iraq. The proposal is that the inspection standards of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health

Re: a modest proposal

2002-10-05 Thread Eugene Coyle
Jim, you've nailed it. Especially since the meatpacking industry has already shipped biological weapons of mass destruction. Gene "Devine, James" wrote: Reading about the U.S. meatpacking industry, I have hit upon a simple and easy solution to the current contretemps between the United States

Decline of American Power?

2002-10-05 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* Is the American empire already over? By DOUG SAUNDERS Saturday, October 5, 2002 - Page F3 ...The United States has been fading as a global power since the 1970s, and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks has merely accelerated this decline. So says Immanuel Wallerstein, the Yale

Re: Decline of American Power?

2002-10-05 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Financially speaking it's hard to see the US empire as healthy. Not only did Clinton keep much of the world in dollars, he used the dollar to beggar them. An attack on Iraq makes very good sense to many in the establishment who think an outrageous act is the best way to reinforce the idea of who

Second Wave?

2002-10-05 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Law enforcement rounds up a sleeper cell in Oregon. Says they were, among other things, practicing rifle shooting in a pit. Skilled gunmen shoot 5 at random in the D.C. area. This has to be very well planned--consider the generic truck they chose to use. There are hundreds of thousands of them

William Mandel's experience with tragedy on the docks

2002-10-05 Thread Michael Perelman
This is the first time I am dealing with a labor matter on my complete list. My family is mourning the death of my grandson, Daniel Glick, age 38, San Francisco longshoreman, a month ago. My daughter Phyllis, his mother, is still mourning the death of Danny's father, Keith Glick, San Francisco

Re: Re: Decline of American Power?

2002-10-05 Thread Carrol Cox
Charles Jannuzi wrote: US private equity interests What are you talking about? This phrase is utterly new to me. Carrol

Germany.......

2002-10-05 Thread Ian Murray
Global crash fears as German bank sinks Faisal Islam, economics correspondent and Will Hutton Sunday October 6, 2002 The Observer Stockbrokers around the world are braced for a potentially calamitous week as alarm mounts over a looming, Thirties-style global financial crisis. A leaked email

Tragedy on the docks: White House Warns of Economic Harm

2002-10-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
Port Talks Resume; White House Warns of Economic Harm (Update3) By Karen Gullo San Francisco, Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Talks to end the nine- day West Coast port shutdown resumed between cargo companies and longshoremen as the Bush administration said the contract dispute is harming the U.S.

Re: Decline of American Power?

2002-10-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
US private equity interests Charles means equity interests that are not publicly traded but privately hold. I think. Best, Sabri

Italy on Iraq

2002-10-05 Thread Ian Murray
Analysis: Rallies change Italy on Iraq? By Eric J. Lyman From the International Desk Published 10/5/2002 5:30 PM View printer-friendly version ROME, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- More than 1.5 million Italians took to the streets of dozens of cities Saturday afternoon and evening to protest possible U.S.